Vadim Grigorievich

Nina Markovna

doctor, microbiologist with doctorate, employee at a science and research institute

Natalia Vadimovna

sister1962

architect

Dana

daughter1975

vice president of a pharmaceutical company in the US

Ivan

son1987

russian theatre and film actor

Anna

daughter2000

to be continued…

Andrey Makarevich was born in Moscow and spent his childhood years in Volkhonka, in a communal apartment of a house that once belonged to the Volkhonsky princes, across from the Pushkin Museum of Visual Arts. Later the family moved to the Komsomolsky Prospekt into a separate apartment

Born

December 11, 1953

Childhood

As a child Andrey dreamed of becoming a diver and herpetologist, and put together a huge collection of butterflies, read a lot of books and loved helping his father draw. Thanks to his father as well, Andrey became accustomed to listening to music, which was always playing in his house: both records and live classical music -- Vadim Grigorievich was a superb piano player. Andrey was also placed in a music school to study piano, but he quit before completing three years there. But at 12 years old he independently began studying guitar -- his decision was prompted by hearing the music of Bulat Okudzhava

School

1960 - 1970

Andrey Makarevich studied at the 19th Moscow school (a specialized school with a focus on English), where during the last years of his time there, after hearing the Beatles in 1966, Andrey became a Beatles fan, like many of his peers. That was when the band Mashina Vremeni was conceived and started. Initially the school band that Andrey played and sang in was called The Kids and performed covers of songs in English

1969

Together with his Beatles-loving classmates Alexander Ivanov, Pavel Ruben, Igor Mazayev and Yuri Borzov, and later with Sergey Kavagoe (a student from a nearby school), Andrey formed Mashina Vremeni, which, having transitioned through so many members, exists to this day. Much of Andrey’s life and artistic work is tied to this band. For almost 50 years now he has been its undying frontman, the author of the majority of its lyrics, as well as the composer of a significant portion of its songs

1971

Accepted at the Moscow Architectural Institute

1974

Expelled (factually because of an internal party directive, due to forbidden involvement in rock music), after which he found a job as an architect at the Giproteatr (“State institute of planning for theaters and entertainment structures”), where he worked up until 1979. In 1975 he was accepted back at MARKHI (Moscow Architectural Institute), finished school in 1977 and received an architect’s degree. However, all of that time his primary work was with Mashina Vremeni

Underground performances by Mashina Vremeni in suburban clubs and the reproduction of recordings from those concerts through cassette players made the band famous throughout the country

Mashina Vremeni

legalization1979

A contract was signed with Roskoncert, which gave the band an official status, and from that day Andrey left the Giproteatr and officially became a musician and performer. In the following years he would spend a huge amount of time touring throughout the USSR. Together with the band he was in the films “Dusha” [Soul] (1982) and “Nachni snachala” [Begin Again] (1986), where he played the lead role

In that same period of time, their first record, “Okhotniki za udachey” [Luck Hunters] came out illegally in the US, without any involvement or knowledge on part of the band. Starting in 1980 the band was involved in a series of futile discussions with the record company Melodiya. Their first album, “V dobryy chas” [Good luck] came out in 1986. From then on, records started coming out regularly

1982 - 1996

Andrey periodically held solo concerts in a typical “bard” manner -- with no accompanying musicians, with one acoustic guitar, where he performed his own songs, not written for Mashina Vremeni. Most of them are recorded as part of his solo discography

1990-е

Andrey took part in recording albums with the band Kvartal and produced Yuz Aleshkovskiy’s album “Okurochek” [Cigarette Butt]. In that period he put out a few collections of poems and some books

The Medal “Defender of Free Russia” — For the Performance of Civic Duty in the Defense of Democracy and Constitutional Order of August 19-21, 1991

June 1999

The Honor Order — in Recognition of Merit for Music and the 30-th Anniversary of the band Mashina Vremeni

Orkestr Kreolskogo Tango

2001

In August of 2001 Andrey organized the project “Orkestr Kreolskogo Tango” (Orchestra of Creole Tango), which plays jazz, blues, bossanova, rumba, swing and chanson. OKT brought together musicians from a number of different bands

Dzhazovye Transformacii

2009

In 2009, the project “Dzhazovye Transformacii” (Jazz transformations) was formed, where Andrey took part along with the “Yevgeniy Borets trio” and the Brill Brothers, in a completely new role -- as a jazz musician and performer. The project includes vocalists I. Rodiles, P. Kasianova, D. Polenova and E. Beriashvili

The Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the IV Degree — for major contributions to the progress of the current musical arts and in honor of his Fiftieth Birthday

ACAPELLA EXPRESSS

2013

In 2013 together with the ensemble “ACAPELLA EXPRESS”, the Yevgeniy Borets trio and trumpet player K. Gevondian, the project “LOVE pesni pro lyubov” [LOVE songs about love] was created, and in 2014, “Dzhazovye Transformacii” released the program “Idish-dzhaz” [Yiddish Jazz]. Both programs were hugely successful in Russia, Israel and the US

«Mashina Vremeni v slovakh I obrazakh». Time Machine in words and images, @Exmo

March 2012

«Golden Cat» medal, Mayor's Diploma and Honourable Cup, for the art painting of the Tea Set — «Five o’cat». The Tea Set was created by Andrey Makarevich in collaboration with Emperor’s porcelain factory and took First Place on the Festival “Moon Cat”, in the “Graphics” category (Catalonia, Spain)

December 2014

Award of the Moscow Helsinki Group, for the Protection of Human Rights by Means of Culture